I have been painting for 10 years. I started in Tokyo.
I love the magic of painting, the colours, the emotion, but most of all the journey.
We left Tokyo 7 years ago after living there for 6.5 years.
It is only now that I want to paint a Japanese subject…
This drawing was done in old crayons and is expressing the strength of life.
All my life I live like a bird, trying to sing a beautiful song. I want to make life better in my homeland, maybe my voice is weak but my believe is strong, my song is written in colors on canvas because these are words I know…
My name is Desta Belay and I live in Ethiopia together with my wife and son.
I have degree in business management from Adama University. Now I am learning painting in Enlightenment Art academy. My interest and hobby is getting the best knowledge of fine art painting, watching the nature and reading historical and psychological books…
I’m Ignacio and I am a research student in history and visual arts. I love painting and drawing but more than anything I enjoy learning and working with people. I use art as a tool for social change and empowerment. I would like to deepen my knowledge in drawing so I could then use these tools and make a difference in other people’s lives…
I am Aras Amin, a visual artist student in an adult art program, and I would like to enter this artistic competition to get a chance to win the ‘How to Draw’ Course to improve my drawing skills…
Hello to you all art lovers,
My name is Emmanuel, I live in France, and I love to draw since I am a child.
I love the XVIII century French Masters for at least two reasons. First they have the technical heritage of the western renaissance, and they invented a new artistic style which is called “Roccoco” it means “Rocaille” in French…
I love to paint but drawing was always my passion as a child. As the years passed so many things in life demanded my time , work , kids & just the day to day business of life. I would love to rekindle my love of the simple joy of drawing. There is nothing as lovely and elegant as a beautifully drawn pencil or pen & ink. Plus it is the foundation of every great painting…
The survey’s winner has been awarded with the full Drawing Academy Course!
More than 100 participants asked academy tutors their most pressing questions about art, how to improve their drawing skills, and the Drawing Academy course itself. We did our best to answer all of them via email.
Below are our answers to 43 selected questions you might find interesting and helpful…
I am a Swiss artist who has began to create an international art career. I draw and paint in a realistic style but with my own style not hyper-realistic. I try to give the paintings and drawings live and soul. so when you pass for example drawings and paintings of myself with an animal you think “has it moved?”
In the drawing you see I was drawing two horses of a friend of mine who gave me here high professional camera to take pictures from me paintings to be able to make also prints of it.
I was so happy that I wanted to give here something really personal back so I made this drawing of here horses…
The Renaissance was one of the greatest periods in art history. Man lost the teachings of the Ancients during the Middles Ages, but was able to not only renew, but to improve upon them. We think of Raphael’s monumental frescoes, Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus”, and Michelangelo’s awe-inducing sculptures. They must have been gifted. They must have been talented from birth. They must have had divine motivation or inspiration to reach such heights. Or so we think. The artist was not much during the Renaissance. In fact, “artist” was a word nearly floating into obscurity. They were simple craftsmen trying to make a living, just like a normal man. Not as moving of a purpose as the modern world would expect…
